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Brooke Henderson follows her ball after playing on the second hole during the Evian Championship on Saturday. (Laurent Cipriani / Associated Press) EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France — Brooke Henderson stood over a birdie putt from three feet at the 18th green, a three-shot lead going into the final round of the Evian Championship seemingly at her mercy. For the first time Saturday — maybe all week, given her dominance of the fourth women’s major of the year — her putting stroke let her… Source link

Nick Fox, vice president of product and design for Search and Assistant. Longtime Google exec Nick Fox take over the company’s commerce and payments business in the interim. Fox’s appointment comes a day after the former head, Bill Ready, announced he is taking over the helm of Pinterest, replacing longtime CEO and founder Ben Silbermann. Ready had been at Google fewer than three years.  Nick Fox will lead Google’s “Commerce, Payments and Next Billion Users,” according to a person familiar… Source link

Like a crafty fighter lulling an opponent into complacency, The Country Club punched back hard on Saturday, rocking the game’s best and setting up a Sunday at the U.S. Open with no clear favorite. Winds picked up into the high teens. Greens dried out and thumped. The rough, allowed to grow, swallowed wayward shots and held on. The field as a whole shot nearly a stroke and a half worse than Friday’s average of 71.99, and the Friday night lead of -5 fell a stroke, to -4. At the beginning of the… Source link

The housing market is starting to show signs of a slowdown. If the trend persists, the U.S could see an impact in other sectors of the economy — starting with big-ticket items that go into furnishing a new home. “The housing market is very much a leading indicator of the economy because of the knock on effects through the various sectors, like consumption of durable goods,” Eric Basmajian, founder of EPB Macro Research, told Yahoo Finance. He predicts durable goods such as large appliances… Source link

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Andrei Vasilevskiy is a not-so-secret key ingredient in the Tampa Bay Lightning‘s recipe for success in the playoffs. The reigning Conn Smythe Trophy recipient won his fifth straight postseason game Sunday, stopping 34 of 35 shots to help the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions beat the Florida Panthers 5-1 and move to the brink of another trip to the Eastern Conference final. “It all starts with him,” forward Nick Paul said after Vasilevskiy stood tall again in… Source link

What initially looked like a Heat romp on Saturday turned into a sweat for Miami with its best player sidelined. But when the game was done, the Heat emerged with a hard-fought 109-103 win over the Boston Celtics to secure a 2-1 series lead in the Eastern Conference finals. They did so late without Jimmy Butler, who missed the entire second half with knee inflammation. After totaling 16 points in Games 1 and 2, Bam Adebayo powered the Heat to victory with his best game of the series. Bam… Source link

There’s a move Justin Thomas makes when he’s feeling it on the green. It’s a wide sidestep, his left leg striding toward the hole as a long putt rolls true. He did it Friday afternoon to close out his second straight 67 at the PGA Championship, and he’s halfway to his second major. “Very pleased,” he said of his round. “Although I played solid [Thursday], I played really, really well [Friday]. The conditions were obviously very difficult. I stayed very patient, tried to get in my own little… Source link

Warren Buffett says these are the best stocks to own when inflation spikes — with consumer prices still surging, it’s time to follow his lead Price levels continue to rise at a rate we haven’t seen in decades. In April, U.S. consumer prices surged 8.3% — down slightly from 8.5% in March, but still near 40-year highs. Spiking inflation has severe consequences for your cash savings. Fortunately, investing legend Warren Buffett has plenty of advice on what to own when consumer prices… Source link

Tom Brady is still playing for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but he’s already got a job lined up when he decides to hang up his helmet. During an earnings call on Tuesday, Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch announced that Brady will be joining Fox Sports when he retires, taking the role of lead NFL analyst. He’ll be calling games with Kevin Burkhardt, who is replacing Joe Buck this season after Buck and his broadcast partner Troy Aikman left for ESPN earlier this year. With Burkhardt in the Buck seat, Brady… Source link

Al Horford turned back the clock and tied the Eastern Conference semifinals. The soon-to-be 36-year-old scored 16 of his playoff career-high 30 points in the fourth quarter to negate a monster night from two-time NBA MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo and beat the Milwaukee Bucks, 116-108. The series is tied 2-2 heading back to Boston for Game 5 on Wednesday at 7 p.m. ET (TNT). Horford made all six of his field-goal attempts in the final frame, and Boston followed its veteran leader. Trailing 76-65 with… Source link